Susana Marinho

PhD. in Biochemistry. Feminist (not the fun kind). 🦅

[Jon Pike @runthinkwrite]

The majority of commentary I've seen against Sophie Cunningham is not of the form:

'Cunningham is wrong, it's a good policy (ie. allowing M in F sport.)

but:

'Cunningham is mean, I'm a nice person'

This substitution is, paradoxically, and in itself, mean and dishonest.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

This woman is a traitor to other women, pulling up the drawbridge behind her for ‘look at me’ virtue points. History will not remember her well when we regain our much needed common sense

[Nathan Cofnas @nathancofnas]

DEI Fraud and Cover-Up: https://t.co/NAhOyUBWVw

It’s an open secret at Cambridge University, but everyone is afraid to speak out. Newspapers backed away after getting hit with legal threats.

Here, I tell the true story of Jason Arday—DEI superstar and the youngest black professor in the history of Cambridge.

[Scarlett Johnson @scarlett4kids]

Any woman calling for Sophie Cunningham to be suspended for defending young girls & women is a traitor and an idiot.

[BBALLBABE @BBALLBABE6]

This is NOT a political issue & shouldn't be made into one. It's physics & human anatomy. Sophie Cunningham is correct.
A thread/example 🧵:

The fastest woman in history is Florence Griffith-Joyner, fabulously known as Flo-Jo 🏃🏾‍♀️ 💅

Her world record in the 100 meter dash is an astonishing 10.49 seconds. This record has stood completely untouched for decades & still stands today 🥇

When compared to professional men, Flo-Jo's all-time historic speed is heavily outmatched by the biological & physiological realities of male sprinting mechanics.

At the professional Men's Level, Flo Jo would be UNRANKED. According to World Athletics data, over 1,900 men have run faster than Flo-Jo’s 10.49 second women's world record. Her time would fail to qualify for any standard professional or NCAA men’s track meet.

Her 10.49-second mark aligns perfectly with the elite U.S. high school boys' level.
76 high school boys ran faster than Flo-Jo's record in 2019 alone.

It's nowhere near fair to amazing women athletes that work hard their whole lives to compete against biological men.

[Maarten Boudry @mboudry]

A devastating review of @bartov_omer's new book by fellow historian and genocide scholar Benny Morris. But why should Bartov care that his arguments have been dismantled with evidence and historical analysis in a small magazine like @Quillette? In any event, he is destined for another round of "moral striptease" (@MattiFriedman) across the globe, as liberal elites celebrate him as the Repentant Jew ("See, even Israelis admit it now!")

Some highlights:

"For Bartov, absurdly, the Arabs play no role in Zionism’s bad turn. In fact, in Israel: What Went Wrong? the Arabs are not really present. There is no Palestinian Arab terrorism bedevilling the Zionist enterprise almost since birth; there are no Palestinian pogroms (1920, 1921, 1929, 1936–1939); no Palestinian or other Arab-initiated wars (1948, 1967, 1973); no constant Palestinian rejection of the successive compromises tabled by international actors and/or the Zionists/Israel (the two-state proposals of the Peel Commission (1937) and of the UN General Assembly (1947); the peace settlements proposed by Israeli Premier Ehud Barak and US President Bill Clinton (2000), and by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (2007–2008)); and the Palestinians’ rejection of Jewish sovereignty in any inch of Palestine starting with Nazi collaborator Haj Amin al Husseini and ending with Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Nowhere does Bartov explain that this rejectionism, repeatedly exploding in massive bloodshed, gradually drove Zionists and Israelis to despair, eroded the Israelis’ willingness to compromise, and, ultimately, generated the current Jewish extremism."

"What happened during the IDF counter-offensive in Gaza’s streets—it was a war—was so unlike “genocide” that even a casual reader of genocide literature, say about the Holocaust or the Turkish Muslim massacre of Asia Minor’s Christian communities during 1894–1924, could not avoid noticing the stark differences."

"Actual genocides pan out differently. In the Holocaust, Germans and their helpers across Europe raided houses and districts, rounded up Jews, shot some on the spot and herded the rest into cattle cars, imprisoned them in ghettoes where they died of disease and hunger, or ferried them directly to woods and camps where they were shot or gassed, man, woman and child. Similarly, the Muslim Turks who murdered up to a million Armenians in 1915–16 in Asia Minor and the Syrian and Iraqi deserts did not warn their intended victims to flee. They rounded them up, shot dead the able-bodied males, and sent the women, children and elderly on death marches into the mountains and deserts, where most died."

https://t.co/xA9V1UB44P

[Helena Ferro de Gouveia @camalees]

Porque Ângela Merkel foi eleita democraticamente e o Ortega quer proibir eleições.
Lula é miserável.

[Susana Marinho @hsmarinho]

It's the girls who are bullied into accepting boys. The boy can play soccer with other boys.

[Jeremy Kauffman 🦔🌲🌕 @jeremykauffman]

New Hampshire girls bullied a transgender boy to stop playing soccer.

They painted "PGS" (protect girls sports) under their eyes when forced to play against him.

[Darya Safai MP @SafaiDarya]

Promoting the hijab means becoming complicit in discrimination.

FIFA’s statutes claim to oppose all forms of discrimination, whether based on race, ethnicity, or sexual orientation. Yet when it comes to women, gender discrimination is not only tolerated—it is celebrated and promoted in the name of culture.

A seven-year-old girl whose parents have imposed the hijab on her—a tool used to control and suppress women—deserves our compassion, not to be displayed as a symbol to celebrate.

I know this from personal experience. When I was seven years old, Khomeini’s regime forced me to wear the hijab. Millions of Iranian women and I have lived with the humiliation of being told that we must cover ourselves so that men can feel comfortable. We reject that oppression—at the risk of our lives.

Your indifference to the suffering of millions of girls forced into the hijab reflects an indifference to the gender discrimination and gender apartheid imposed by the islamic ideology behind this symbolic garment—an ideology of control, inequality, and oppression.

Nothing destroys universal human rights more than cultural relativism. She is only a seven-year-old girl.

Let her live.

[David Collier @mishtal]

A plaque in Paris commemorating a family of 'Righteous' who helped Jews during the Holocaust, has just been vandalised.

It comes exactly eighty-four years after the mass arrest of Jews in Paris (16–17 July 1942) by Vichy French police.

What has happened to Europe?

[Uri Kurlianchik @VerminusM]

Whoever gives the correct answer won't be accept to an ivy league university.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

The formerly great Guardian is no longer concerned with journalism, only with pandering to their eccentric leftist readers, in an attempt to postpone the date of their demise

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

Earlier today a @Guardian journalist sent me this query:

Dear Toby Young,

I'm Aisha Down, a journalist at the Guardian. I'm getting in touch because we're planning to report that the US state department is considering a grant of $5m to Free Speech Union, your organisation, as part of a new grant-making scheme, and wanted to give you the chance to comment. We would appreciate receiving your comment by 14:30.

We are considering reporting the following:

- The grant to the FSU is part of a package to Maga aligned groups that former US officials have condemned as a misuse of public money to seek influence over foreign politics and interfere with democracy.

- It is rare for the US government to fund partisan political organisations in western countries.

- These grants are likely to pose a challenge to Andy Burnham, who has said he will be "very upfront" with Trump about any disagreements.

- These grants - including to your organisation - are "sole source" grants, meaning they are to be awarded without any competitive process. This is unusual for a highly regulated process which usually requires grantees to show they have a track record for handling funds and clear plans for the money.

- This lack of process has been criticised as "outrageous and absurd" by former US officials, and as "gross incompetence" and "horrible stewardship" of US taxpayer money.

- Your organisation does not appear to have a track record of handling grants of this amount.

- We describe your organisation as "a rallying point for “anti-woke” grievance" which "frequently allies itself with rightwing causes" and say that you, Toby Young, appeared on Rees-Mogg's GB news show earlier this month to warn about 'Soviet-style' censorship in the UK.

- The state department says that its grant to FSU will “support campaigns promoting free speech and countering digital overregulation across the UK, Europe and Australia”. The sole-source award is justified “due to FSU’s global network of free speech activists”.

We would like to fully and fairly reflect your point of view and look forward to your statement. Thank you,

--
Aisha Kehoe Down
Senior Tarbell Fellow,
Guardian News and Media

I replied as follows:

It sounds like a pretty garbled story.

Free Speech Union International, which is the umbrella group that FSU UK, FSU Australia, FSU New Zealand, FSU Canada, FSU South Africa and FSU Brazil sit within, has expressed interest in applying for grant funding from the US State Department. This would be to promote the right to freedom of expression in those countries, which, far from being a partisan cause, is a universal human right. But it hasn't submitted a formal application and, consequently, has been awarded no grant from the State Department or any other branch of the US Government.

You've mischaracterised the FSUs, all of which are non-partisan organisations that defend people who get into trouble for exercising their right to feee speech regardless of their political views. The FSU UK, for instance, is currently paying for the legal defence of a protestor who's being prosecuted for holding up a sign saying "I support Palestine Action", as well as a protestor for wearing a t-shirt at a Unite the Kingdom rally for saying "Fuck Islam Christ is King". Yes, we helped Lucy Connolly appeal her sentence -- we thought a prison sentence of over two-and-a-half years for a single tweet was excessive -- but we also tweeted yesterday, condemning the arrest of Heather Herbert and offering our support. Yes, we came to the defence of Nigel Farage when he was debanked, but we've also offered to help the Canary in its recent debanking case. So to describe the FSU UK as a "rallying point for anti-woke grievance" is misleading. We are a rallying point for those who want to defend the right to freedom of expression.

Best,

Toby

The @Guardian then ran this story:

https://t.co/1l4K0PABvM

You be the judge of whether you think this is good journalism.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Amnesty UK was already smearing feminists as 'anti-rights' back in May, according to @thetimes. It appears that, far from being an accidental slip up or an editorial error, the latest defamatory report accurately represents Amnesty UK's deep-seated hostility to all organisations that believe sex is real and important in contexts such as same sex attraction and healing after sexual violence and trauma.

Those who've been defamed are owed an explanation of why Amnesty claimed to have withdrawn the report because of its 'language' when, per @thetimes article, it had already expressed exactly the same beliefs, in the same language, months previously.

Many of the organisations Amnesty has attacked are grassroots campaigners with a tiny fraction of a gigantic, well-funded international NGO's resources. The defamatory report has already had serious consequences for a service supporting women at the most vulnerable time of their lives, as detailed by Beira's Place lawyers in the legal letter sent two days ago. The withdrawing of the report cannot undo the harm it has already done and is continuing to do.

If Amnesty is under the illusion that the women's, children's and gay rights organisations it has attacked will be unwilling to go to court, they have made yet another massive error of judgement. They underestimate both the solidarity that exists between the targeted organisations and my willingness to support legal action, not just on behalf of Beira's Place, but for all women's and LGB organisations falsely branded 'anti-rights.'

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

Hamas is a genocidal cult: Recently uncovered documents from slain Hamas leader and October 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar reveal the depth of his depravity and the extent to which he knowingly steered Gaza toward catastrophe. Handwritten notes drafted a year before the attack show Sinwar anticipated a ferocious Israeli counter‑offensive, even speculating, in his own words, about the possibility of an Israeli nuclear retaliation on Gaza. Despite uncertainty over whether Iran or Hezbollah would join the fight, he outlined a plan to deploy up to ten thousand fighters from Gaza to seize Israeli towns, expel civilians, hold hostages, and wage what he described as a life‑or‑death battle. These notes align with earlier documents from Sinwar’s archive detailing his intent to use extreme brutality to maximize terror, fear, and psychological trauma among Israelis.

The implications are stark. Hamas’s crimes against humanity were not only committed against Israelis but also against the Palestinian people. The fascist organization employed ISIS‑grade tactics, fully aware that the attack went far beyond any military objective and could provoke overwhelming Israeli retaliation. Sinwar’s delusions were matched only by his ignorance: Israel does not need nuclear weapons to inflict devastating harm on Gaza. Yet Hamas deliberately launched an intentionally genocidal assault, predicting, and banking on, an Israeli survival response that would devastate Gaza and then be weaponized for global sympathy. In doing so, Hamas sacrificed 2.3 million Palestinians for a propaganda strategy.

This alone should compel the immediate, unconditional, and unequivocal rejection of Hamas by anyone claiming to support Palestinian rights. It should erase any doubt that Islamist extremists pose an existential threat to Palestinian survival, freedom, and the possibility of building a society not dragged into wars its rulers knowingly design to be catastrophic. When you are the weaker party facing the most far‑right government in Israel’s history, your obligation is to safeguard your people, not gamble their lives on apocalyptic fantasies. Hamas’s failure to do so is a betrayal worthy of absolute condemnation. It forfeits any Hamas claim to political relevance and demands that those responsible for October 7 be treated as traitors and murderers of their own people.

[Mosab Hassan Yousef @MosabHasanYOSEF]

Palestine is not a country.

It’s a state of permanent victimhood.

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

How Amnesty International began as a great human rights organization and turned into a an enemy of human rights, supporting tyrants, terrorists, jihadists, misogynist, homophobes, and antisemites:

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

For over two years, we told you: Hamas used hospitals for military purposes. The dead “journalists” were combatants. Hamas used child soldiers. That aid was being diverted by Hamas. Tens of thousands of the dead and wounded in Gaza were combatants. Hamas used human shields.

And so many other things, all of which are now proven as incontrovertibly true.

Yet, not a whisper to set the story straight from the global media who pushed the genocide and war crimes lies since 7th October.

[🇨🇦@5uffragette @5uffragette]

Under New Management??

[Greg - Israelite in Exile (surviving the Galut) @anexiledjew]

The brilliant Howard Jacobson on 'The Big Lie'.